Schäffer Surname
Approximately 10,638 people bear this surname
Schäffer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 8,428 | 1:9,552 | 1,200 |
| Hungary | 932 | 1:10,532 | 1,217 |
| Austria | 843 | 1:10,101 | 1,340 |
| Denmark | 147 | 1:38,399 | 4,009 |
| Slovakia | 52 | 1:102,624 | 19,507 |
| Switzerland | 52 | 1:157,941 | 14,824 |
| Netherlands | 45 | 1:375,271 | 40,838 |
| Norway | 31 | 1:165,880 | 20,092 |
| Czechia | 29 | 1:366,671 | 43,532 |
| Slovenia | 27 | 1:92,136 | 11,211 |
| Brazil | 25 | 1:8,562,973 | 188,780 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Schaffer (47,021) are calculated separately.
Schäffer Demographics
Average Schäffer Salary in
Norway
403,704 kr
Per year
Average Salary in
Norway
346,080 kr
Per year
Schäffer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Schäffer Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Schäffer is found most frequently in Germany. It can also be found in the variant forms: Schaffer. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Schäffer? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 48,463rd most widespread family name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 685,048 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Schäffer reside; 88 percent reside in Western Europe and 88 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname is most frequently held in Germany, where it is carried by 8,428 people, or 1 in 9,552. In Germany it is most frequent in: Bavaria, where 24 percent live, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 23 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 23 percent live. Besides Germany this last name occurs in 26 countries. It is also common in Hungary, where 9 percent live and Austria, where 8 percent live.
Schäffer Last Name Statistics demography
Schäffer earn notably more than the average income. In Norway they earn 16.65% more than the national average, earning 403,704 kr per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Schäffer
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